How to Use maim in a Sentence

maim

verb

• The bomb killed 16 people and maimed several others.
• Jim Davis/Globe Staff The bombs killed three and maimed dozens.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
• Enter Email Sign Up The bombs killed three and maimed dozens.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• So many more were maimed and left homeless for years to come.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
• Extreme heat kills and maims:Here are some of its victims from across the US.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• But the fact is, people with guns kill, and maim and terrorize.
  — Sue McMillin, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• Statues of saints have been left maimed, missing hands and feet.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• Many were injured, some maimed, and others lost their lives.
  — Rinu Oduala, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• Men on the islands have been left blind, deaf or maimed, and death has become part of the fishermen’s lore.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• Mines, booby-traps and bombs continue to kill and maim.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• No one has a right to maim or kill someone because our words offend them.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2022
• All that fighting, all that maiming and dying for what?
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Some of my favorite restaurants had been maimed by the pandemic.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023
• Lebanon still has a long way to go, particularly in the south, where mines and cluster bombs still kill and maim.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• When the rest of us can’t sleep we count sheep, and this guy has to count burned and maimed Cambodian and Vietnamese babies.
  — Scott Sherman, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• All the things that hurt us and maim us, the jealousies and rages, loves and losses and sorrows, become fodder for authors.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
• Like Adeline, many people employed by CDC have been maimed.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• Tens of thousands of people have been maimed by Cambodia’s mines.
  — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
• If branches large enough to maim are crashing down around your ground blind, that’s also too much wind for deer hunting.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2023
• Unfortunately many of the bomblets in such weapons later went on to kill and maim civilians.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
• Most attackers’ aim, experts say, is not to kill, but to maim and embarrass.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2019
• Anderson was jailed on an assault with intent to maim charge.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 1 July 2018
• Too many end with innocent bystanders maimed or killed.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• The weapons, banned by more than 100 countries, can leave unexploded bomblets that can kill or maim civilians.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Many young people have seen friends killed, maimed or hauled off by security forces.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
• At first, police said, Mohammed wanted to maim the officer by tossing acid in his face.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2018
• That many thousands of South Korean civilians would be maimed and killed by the wholesale shelling of the capital did not seem to bother him.
  — Hampton Sides, Time, 11 Nov. 2019
• Lethal weaponry is not just a symbol or a cultural totem or a deterrent; its purpose is to kill and maim.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Feb. 2018
• Many more runners were maimed, beaten with clubs, or blinded with shrapnel from their homemade bombs.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• The explosion tore through The Times building, killing 20 employees and maiming dozens of others.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024